On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:46:36AM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > Delegated ZFS administration is new to ZFS in snv_69, and is/will > showing up on build servers at about the same time as we're moving to > mercurial, so many developers haven't had the opportunity to play with > zfs snapshots & clones with teamware.
Sadly, it's still not prime-time. Snapshots and clones preserve file ownership, which means that all clones will have their files owned by whoever owns the master workspace. So you still need root access to go in and chown everything. And of course bringing over again to the same workspace doesn't work, unless you don't mind losing all your changes. What we need there is assisted 3-way filesystem auto-merge. ;-) Danek
